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The Doctor's Every Journey 97

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 23, 2010 @12:21PM from the amy-pond-is-on-my-list dept.

jc79 writes "David McCandless of InformationIsBeautiful.net has created a crowdsourced dataset of every time travel journey the Doctor made in every episode of the series since 1963. Who wants to visualise it?" Previous efforts have resulted in this amazing visualization of time travel intersecting Bill & Ted, Back to the Future, Time Bandits, Buck Rogers, Planet of the Apes and many more.

China's Nine-Day Traffic Jam Tops 62 Miles 198

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 23, 2010 @12:08PM from the living-on-the-road dept.

A traffic jam on the Beijing-Tibet expressway has now entered its ninth day and has grown to over 62 miles in length. This mother-of-all delays has even spawned its own micro-economy of local merchants selling water and food at inflated prices to stranded drivers. Can you imagine how infuriating it must be to see someone leave their blinker on for 9 days?

Sony Finally Turning a Profit On PS3s 117

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday July 01, 2010 @03:51AM from the catching-up-with-moore dept.

When the PS3 launched in 2006, estimates pegged the price of producing the consoles to be as much as $250 more than the price at which they were sold. Production costs have dropped since then, but there have been several price cuts as well. Now, almost four years later, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida says they're finally turning a profit on the hardware. "This year is the first time that we are able to cover the cost of the PlayStation 3,' Yoshida said. 'We aren't making huge money from hardware, but we aren't bleeding like we used to.' In May, Sony began shipping new PlayStation 3 consoles with smaller and more cost-effective graphics chips. Now, Yoshida said, Sony is looking at replenishing retail stock that has been running on empty since January rather than cutting the price. 'When we bring the cost of hardware down, we are looking at opportunities to adjust prices if we believe that will increase demand,' he explained. 'At the moment, we are trying to catch up our production.'"

Comment This happens a lot, but there is a workaround (Score 1) 675

by psplay on Monday January 05, 2009 @06:45AM (#26328003) Attached to: Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police

If asked by someone to delete photo's then happily do so, spend time to show them and be utterly convincing that you are complying with them.

Now if you want to continue taking photo's be sure to switch the memory card for a new one first. Its important not to take any more photo's with the orignal memory card.

When you get home, use a card reader and some undelete software to get your images. Everybody (Relatively) happy.

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